Book Reviews and Notices : The Realities of American-Palestine Relations. BY FRANK E. MANUEL. (Washington, D. C.: Public Affairs Press. 1949. Pp. viii, 378. $5.00.)

• Published date: 01 December 1949
• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200414
• Date: 01 December 1949
• Subject Matter: Articles

632

ning

from

the

last

paragraph

of

Art.

52

to

Art.

35,

and

then

from

the

second

paragraph

of

Art.

35

to

Art.

33

in

which

&dquo;resort

to

regional

agencies

or

arrangements&dquo;

is

acknowledged,

he

begs

the

question,

for

Art.

33

presupposes

a

valid

regional

agency

or

arrangement.

In

the

opinion

of

this

reviewer

all

attempts

to

reconcile

the

admis-

sion

of

non-members

of

the

United

Nations

to

the

North

Atlantic

Pact

with

the

Charter

are

doomed

to

failure.

If

stark

necessity

compelled

the

Western

Powers

to

admit

Italy

and

Portugal

to

their

North

Atlantic

Alliance,

then

there

was

for

them

but

one

frank

vindication

of

such

action,

namely,

that

they

were

only

doing

what

others

had

been

doing

all

along

in

building

the

existing

Soviet

alliance

system.

The College

of

Idaho.

GEORGE

V.

WOLFE.

The

Realities

of

American-Palestine

Relations.

BY

FRANK

E.

MANUEL.

(Washington,

D.

C.:

Public

Affairs

Press.

1949.

Pp.

viii,

378.

$5.00.)

The

&dquo;Palestine

problem&dquo;

was,

from

the

inauguration

of

the

Nazi

program

of

extermination

of

the

Jews

in

Europe

in

1933

until

the

recog-

nition

of

the

new

state

of

Israel

by

the

United

States

in

May,

1948,

an

irritating

puzzle

of

ever-increasing

complexity

in

American

foreign

rela-

tions.

Dr.

Frank

E.

Manuel,

an

historian

now

teaching

at

Brandeis

Uni-

versity,

has

written

a

timely

and

frequently

fascinating

study

of

official

American

relations

with

Palestine

from

the

time

of

the

appointment

of

our

first

consular

representative

in

Jerusalem,

1832,

to

the

events

imme-

diately

following

the

establishment

of

Israel

last

year.

Dr.

Manuel

divides

American

relations

with

Palestine

into

five

historical

periods:

the

period

of

Turkish

rule,

complete

with

capitulatory

complications;

the

period

immediately

following

World

War

I,

when

the

United

States

was

actively

interested

in

the

disposition

of

the

area;

the

period

of

British

rule;

the

period

of

UN

consideration;

and

the

present

epoch,

which

began

on

May

14,

1948

with

the

setting

up

of

the

Israeli

Government.

The

author

has

woven

his

narrative

skillfully.

His

treatment

is

thor~

ough

and

comprehensive.

However,

the

work

is

marred

by

an

excessive

bias

which

destroys

any

possible

claim

to

balance

or

objectivity.

The

Reali-

ties

of

American-PaLestine

Relations

is

a

frankly

partisan

tract

replete

with

heroes

and

villains.

Prominent

among

the

latter

are

the

&dquo;profes-

sional

Anglophiles&dquo;

(a

designation

of

dubious

import),

the

foreign

ser-

vice

officers

who

staff

the

Department

of

State’s

Office

of

Near

Eastern

Affairs

(Loy

Henderson,

for

several

years

Chief

of

that

Office,

and

con-

stant

target

of

Zionist

attacks

during

the

war

years

and

after,

is

conspicu-

ous

by

his

absence

from

the

discussion),

the

&dquo;oil

men

who

dabbled

in

Mid-

dle

Eastern

politics,&dquo;

and

the

British

(in

general

and

in

particular).

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